Chart of the Day: Never Believe Corporations. Never.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matt Yglesias points me today to an elegant recent study of the job market. As you know, the business community has been grousing for years that they simply can’t find people who are qualified for all the complex new jobs they have on offer. This…
The Gig Economy Is a Big Nothingburger
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you know if you’re a faithful reader of this blog, the “gig economy” is largely a myth. So how did two prominent researchers, Alan Krueger of Princeton University and Lawrence Katz of Harvard, manage to screw up so badly, predicting in 2015 that gig…
This HUD Official Just Found a Very Convenient Excuse to Delay Moving From Trump Plaza to Public Housing
A NYCHA resident uses buckets to catch leaking water.Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lynne Patton, the Department of Housing and Urban Development official who was once a Trump family event planner, earned headlines and snark when she announced in November that she was going to move into public housing administered…
The Governor of Tennessee Just Granted Clemency to Cyntoia Brown
Cyntoia Brown appears in court during her clemency hearing in May.Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim serving a life sentence in Tennessee for killing a man when she was 16, will walk free this summer after spending over a decade incarcerated. The yearslong…
Cuban Sonic Attack Was … Crickets
One down, 700 million to go.Zoologische Staatssamlung München Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You all remember the “sonic attack” on the US Embassy in Havana? It was weird as hell. People who worked there complained of a high-pitched sound and became sick in startling numbers. The effects, which doctors said…
Quote of the Day: “Let the Damn Oil Flow!”
Ralf Hirschberger/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump in a cabinet meeting last week: And I make calls. I said, “You better let that oil and that gasoline flow.” And they did. And now it’s down to $44. And I put out a social media statement yesterday;…